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Our Daily Thread 1-4-14

Good Morning!

And Happy Saturday!

On this day in 1885 Dr. William Grant performed the first successful appendectomy.

In 1896 Utah became the 45th U.S. state.

In 1962 New York City introduced a train that operated without conductors and motormen. 

In 1965, during his State of the Union address, President Johnson proclaimed the building of the “Great Society.”

And in 1974 President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

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Quote of the Day

“Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.”

Don Shula

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Phil Everly passed away yesterday. 😦

Next up, some Smalltown Poets.

And some Gospel Country Trail Band.

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QoD

What are you doing on this first Saturday of the year?

69 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-4-14”

  2. Thanks, Donna, for the kitten video yesterday.

    Answer to yesterday’s question: our family has a reunion in June. I have not been in a number of years. It use to conflict with our son’s scheduled summer camps so we got out of the habit of attending. There maybe 75 to 100 who attend. My brother is in charge of it so I always get news about all the relatives.

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  3. Good morning Janice. I thought everyone else would be up and about now.
    This first Saturday is the same as all the other Saturdays. We’re having winter weather in Hendersonville and whatever I do will be done inside.

    If not for appendectomy, I would be dead. I nearly died of a ruptured appendix when I was six years old. They took me from Winnsboro to the Baptist Hospital in Columbia. I still remember fighting them hooking me up to ether. I thought I was drowning. They had me hooked up to all sorts of contraptions and I stayed in the hospital two weeks.
    There was a cute little nurse, probably a candy stripe girl who would reaed to me.
    I loved her. There was another who always came in and tore off the bandages and other things that hurt. I hated her.
    She is likely the one who kept me alive.

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  4. What I do today will depend on what the Kid’s best friend does today. His parents divorced and he moved away with his mom, but his dad still lives down the street. Every other weekend he is back in the neighborhood and they get to hang out unless he and his dad decide to do something. His other friend also moved recently because of a divorce, but he won’t be back.

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  5. I saw a cartoon today, taken from a joke decades ago.
    Mattel has come out with a “Divorced Barbie”
    It’s Barbie with everything Ken used to own.
    Everyone knows, KBells, that divorce only affects two people. It’s nobody elses business.

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  6. I was just going stay home out of the cold, but my niece needs help with her car, so it’s off to be an outdoor mechanic. Brr! But at least today is going to be a balmy 30°F instead of the sub-zero predicted for the next couple of days.

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  8. Today? The children are cleaning the house. Husband and one child and a mentor are off to orientation for the school drop out boot camp child has elected to attend for five and a half months starting in a couple of weeks. Should be good for him though we are somewhat concerned as he is doing so well. But he is going to get educational support and structure. I told him his behavior better not change but his educational level better. He grinned and gave me a hug. I will be napping and eating bonbons and doing crosswords.

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  9. I’m packing up all the Christmas decor that I gathered into the dining room yesterday. It looks like a forest in there 🙂

    Then I’m researching simply buying a new stove or repairing ours. The control panel sparked brighter than the kitchen light and smoke came pouring out just as hubby pulled supper from the oven on Thursday. Sigh, the stove is just 2 years old! Saskatchewan has a lot of power problems – more than any other province we’ve lived in. We think that probably contributed. We may have to get a surge protector for the whole house since you can’t plug a stove or dryer into one. Fortunately, our close neighbour used to work at an appliance repair shop so he should be able to give us some good advice.

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  10. Snowing here…and it is beginning to accumulate…17 degrees outside and a warm 68 inside…it’s going to be a lazy day for me and the heating pad….sciatica acting up…stay safe and warm everyone!

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  11. I slept late…late. I just got up a bit a ago. I haven’t slept this late in years.
    I am not sure what I will do today. It is COLD. I may take a page out of Mumsee’s book and just eat bon bons and do crossword puzzles. I mostly do them in ink. If you do the ones in the paper on a regular basis you soon learn that certain words keep appearing. I run through and get all the easy ones and then go back and work on the hard ones. I have also downloaded a soduko game on my phone. I am back up to Very Hard level. What I have found in doing them is there is always one number that is easy to get in every box. Usually it is 9 or 7. Once you plug those in it is easier to go back and get the others. Patterns. It is all about patterns.
    A long time ago when I taught math I used the word jumble out the the paper to start the class every day. Words follow patterns and numbers follow patterns.
    Jigsaw puzzles? I never have been able to do those. Maybe that is why I am not as smart as some people I know.

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  12. Good Morning, Y’all!
    Odds and ends around the house. A few paperwork items for work. Going to pick up IBNO, Jr. from the church, he’s been off skiing with a group. I was going to replace a part on the beast (my truck) but it didn’t arrive yet…

    Chas…down to the championship! Unfortunately, last night was the night for Tigers…but not Monday. Go ‘Noles!

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  15. getting together with a friend who is driving over the mountains and stopping here on her way.

    Even after all these years divorce made for a painful Christmas.

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  17. IBNO: Love, love, love Games magazine – we always have to pick up 2 copies because husband and I like to do the same puzzles in the magazine. I did their last 2 cryptic crosswords without cheating – or help from my husband. That was a first for me!

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  18. I have never done a crossword puzzle.
    I have put puzzles together though. But not lately I always looked at the picture.
    And I do solitare on the computer. The compputer cheats.
    And I do freecell on the computer. And I cheat. What happens is that I come to an impass where I know I’m going to lose. Then I “undo” several times until I get a good move. This maight happen several times. If you keep trying, there’s usually a way out.
    But not always.

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  19. Wow, I’m slow this morning, I slept until 9 (though was up for a while during the night again, I hate that) and I’m facing a long “to do” list this weekend. Groan.

    Can I just go back to bed now?

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  20. What I’m doing today includes finishing an editing job and preparing for a blizzard. (Laundry is being done today instead of Monday, for instance.) Church has been cancelled; nearly everyone comes from at least half an hour away, and it’s highly unlikely the roads will be clear. And we wouldn’t have any place to park if we did find a way to get there, let alone being there for three hours (Sunday school, church, dinner after) and still being able to get out. It was a wise, even necessary, decision, but still a sad one.

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  22. The Kid’s friend is here today, so he can go “hang out” (I’ve been told they are too old to go play, It’s “hang out”) and I can clean the house. Sadly, he is now the only child on the street still living with both parents.

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  23. Cheryl- It is sad when we have to cancel meetings because of the weather. But the great thing now-a-days is that we can get on the website of other churches and listen to their sermons. Not as great as being there, though.

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  26. http://www.sermonaudio.com/main.asp

    Great resource, our church is on it (so we can hear our sermons — not live, but within a couple hours if we miss the service) and there are churches from all around the world as well, from all denominations. I’ve used it on Sunday mornings when I’ve been home for whatever reason. I get to go to Scotland to attend church on those days. 🙂

    Jo’s right, it’s warm (60s) and dry here, too dry, although we are getting a forecast for showers at least this coming week. Our typical rainy season is Jan. – March, so we’re hoping we get some this year to counteract some of this drought we seem to be mired in out west.

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  28. It is warm and dry here as well. Highs in the high twenties. The forecast is for snow in a few days. That will be good. Right now the two little folk are out sledding.

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  30. Speaking of divorce and grandparenting. I talked to a guy who brought me to tears and then laughter yesterday. Recently he took his stepson hunting. What is unique about this is that he divorced the stepson’s mother about 10 or so years ago. She had gone crazy and started abusing drugs. She eventually overdosed and died.. He stepped back in to help the father and grandmother finish raising the two children.
    My friend laughed and said “Yep, we were at the hunting camp and D asked me how he is going to explain to his own children one day that they have two grandfathers on his side and they aren’t even married to each other!’

    It takes a special man to do that. He now goes and helps his ex mother in law. She was sick recently and called him to go pick up a prescription for her. Life in a small town.

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  31. It’s about 5 here, but the wind chill makes it feel like -0 temps. So the snow is not yet melting.

    We’ve also reluctantly decided to stay home from church tomorrow too. We’re supposed to have freezing rain and ice from the early AM until noon tomorrow. Then rain tomorrow night thru Monday, so we should see some of this snow melt off. Yuck. 😦

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  34. Glad to report that Bosley did fine with boarding. Being the only kitten, she stole the hearts of everyone and did not seem to lack for attention. She is now asleep, but had a crazy go round the house time at first. A clean and dry paper towel landed on the kitchen foor and Bosley pounced on it and rode on it as if it were a magic carpet or slip and slide. It was so cute. She also stuck her head in my empty brdroom shoe which was vomical. She can hardly be persuaded to leave the Christmas cactus alone. She did not seem to forget her new family and home. 🙂

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  36. My cat was funny today, also. He brought half a mouse and left it on the shoe shelf just outside the door, where he gets fed. Cats are funny that way. Kittens grow up to be cats. Be very careful , Janice. Sleep with one eye open. But enjoy it while it is learning those death dealing skills.

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  38. Chas, you were fortunate to be able to get to a hospital. About two decades before your appendectomy, my grandfather’s elder brother died when the local doctor tried to perform an emergency appendectomy on the kitchen table. Their home was isolated in rural Nova Scotia (even today, there is only one paved road through the community), so it would have taken too long to get to a hospital.

    What am I doing today? Well, my mother and I were the only ones home for most of the day, so I got to talk to her about my year and she told me about what had happened while I was away. It was a quiet day. Then my dear father, who has a habit of working all day without taking a break, came home this evening from a job he was doing (he has become an odd job man for friends and neighbours since he was forced into early retirement) with one of his racing heart episodes. I prescribed food and water (he hadn’t eaten or drank since breakfast!) and lo and behold, his heartbeat slowed down. I’m afraid I lectured him a little about taking better care of himself.

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  39. Hi everyone! Sorry I’ve not been around much. Becca’s sick with a mean vomit virus. She’s had it for about 48 hours now–though the vomiting subsided last night around 8. She’s still spiking a fever of 102 every 5 1/2 hours and then it’s time for more ibuprofen. She seems to be on the mend now–when her fever went down this evening, she wanted to play instead of just lying on the couch. Hubby is off on a hunting trip, this being the last weekend of hunting season. Older daughter, L., has spent the weekend with a friend.

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  41. This probably shouuld go on the prayer thread.
    And I thought about putting it on R&R.
    But I decided to settle for here.
    About 6:45 this evening, I was minding my own business, when Dr. Jones called. He is sick.
    He wants me to teach for him tomorrow.
    I worked on the lesson for about two hours and am taking a break before going back to it..
    The good thing is that it’s on the sixteenth chapter of John. I like teaching John and have enjoyed digging into this.
    The bad thing is that this is not the way I like to prepare lessons. I’ve told you before:
    I always read next week’s lesson on Sunday afternoon and store it in my heart and mind.
    Then, I read it again through the week and start thinking about what I’m going to say.
    Then, I do the lesson on Saturday. I can’t do it much ahead of time because it gets stale.
    I would appreciate it if you would mention me to the Lord tomorrow morning about 9:30 est.

    Now. Back to it.

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  52. Hello, hello?

    Where is everybody?

    Oh yeah, all you good Christians are at church while we stay home and watch the snow pile up.

    It really is gorgeous; it’s sticking, and so all the trees are largely white. Misten came in just covered with snow.

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  54. I prayed for you Chas before and also around 10:15 which may have still been while you were teaching. Another teacher and I went out to get the little tree and decor to my car. It was a good chance for us to stop in the hallway and offer up a prayer.

    We had five baptisms by the Bhutanese mission group during our service. It keeps growing. Baptisms bring both congregations together. Wish we could momentarily, at the least, understand each other’s languages.

    Bosley is planted just under my chin and sending out big purr vibes. I put my “cat” clothes on after church since evening service is cancelled due to expected “weather.” Bosley likes a fleece vest and such for a resting spot. At the vets office one lady who asked if she could pet Bosley said she has an older cat who looks like Bosley but without the mustache. Her cat is named Miss Priss. That’s a cute name.

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  55. We did not go to church. We are ill. Well, husband and I are and the little two (not surprising as they spend most of their awake time within ten feet of me, closer if they can. And a couple of the older ones as well.

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  57. Thanks, Janice, I don’t know what it is. But it makes folks tired. At least old folks. Does not seem to affect young folks in quite the same way.

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  58. This morning the priest gave us instruction on taking communion in times of sickness. It seems half the church is sick. Rather than drink from the cup he suggested you just dip a tiny corner of the bread in the wine, but not to “maul” the bread before you dipped.

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  59. Kim, when we took communion like that in the Methodist church where my husband attends it was known as communion by intinction or intincture (not sure which is correct since I am having a brain freeze right now).

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  60. Intinction is the phrase we use. The priest was just explaining that if you had germs all over your hands it really didn’t help from spreading them to soak your bread in the wine.
    Having been on alter guild before, they use port wine which has a stronger alcohol content. It is for sipping not gulping. I have always told myself that surely God wouldn’t let you get sick from taking communion, but this morning I “tinked”

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  61. A couple days ago or so, someone on here wondered where I was. I’m still here, but got way behind on reading the threads because of some busy-ness & such.

    We did not lose power during the snowstorm, thank the Lord. And we’ve had some of the frigid weather others are also dealing with.

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  64. The suggestion to dip the bread into the wine made me cringe a little, as the first thing that came to my mind was would that contaminate the wine with gluten, which would be a problem for people with celiac disease (unless the communion wafers were gluten-free)?

    Maybe it wouldn’t cause gluten contamination, but it if did, I would be concerned for people with celiac (for all of the ones I know, getting the slightest bit of gluten causes them to be ill for at least a week).

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  65. 6 Arrows, I once knew someone who wanted to furnish gluten free bread for communion so she could take it the same as everyone else. I, personally, did not feel the whole congregation should have to go gluten free to accommodate one person’s needs. But maybe Christ would see it differently. You do make a good point about the cup getting some bits of bread in it that could affect someone.

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  66. The Bosley blur just went through the room. She is so fast. She seems very different from when she first arrived here. She was a pitiful wailing bit of black and white homeless fur and now she is a confident home owner, managing her household and peeps. She wanted son’s sweet potato and before the two letter word no could be said she leapt upon her desired potato. So now perhaps a lucky possum outside will have what I had promised my son would be the best sweet potato he had ever tasted. I think he had at least one bite of it.

    Bosley’s favorite new toy is the elastic lanyard and name tag from husband’s IRS update conference. Probably the most beneficial thing he got from the conference was this toy and when he got it he did not even know there would be a Bosley in his life. 🙂

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  67. I see I didn’t proofread my post well enough — “but it if did” should read “but if it did”, of course. 😉

    Regarding communion, I don’t know all the different practices out there, but in our church, we use communion wafers (which contain gluten), rather than bread, and we use individual communion cups for each person, rather than the common cup. In that situation, there isn’t an issue with gluten getting into the wine.

    Some friends of mine who belonged to our church before they moved away had celiac disease in the family (the husband and one of the children). The wife made gluten-free wafers for her husband, and those were placed on a separate tray than the ones for the rest of the congregation. The husband would go up to communion with the first table, and always stand at a certain place so that whomever was serving communion would know that he was the one who needed the GF wafer. Our church was very accommodating of his needs.

    We visited some other friends of ours last night who have a 15-year-old son with celiac. Their church orders both regular wafers and gluten-free ones, and also serves them from separate trays. They go to a small, country church, which started the practice of offering both types of wafers after our friend’s son got diagnosed a couple years ago. Our friends never asked the church to do that for their son, but they were very pleased at how considerate the gesture was so that their son can receive communion, too, and not have to worry about getting the horrible digestive issues he had before being aware of his gluten intolerance.

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  68. Our church always has water in the cup in the centre hole of the communion plate of cups. I suggested this one day as I cannot drink the grape juice. They were very accommodating. The worship pastor’s daughter cannot eat yeast of any kind. It never occurred to me until now that she might not be able to participate in communion. I know of several other people now who also take the water instead of the grape juice or just letting the plate go by.

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